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For me personally working in big tech, there was a sharp increase of work-related malaise in 2020 that never went down. IMO it was largely driven by 1) covid-era hiring blitz follo…

The book "On Tyranny: 20 lessons from the 20th century" by the historian Timothy Snyder is an excellent read for these times. The very first lesson is "Do not obey in advance". It'…

From the job posting it sounds like the company value prop is AI agents as debt collector? They want to “solve deep problems like collecting more money”. What a shitty dystopia we’…

BERT is encoder only..

Also: what happens when a nontrivial portion of public code out there is ML-generated? How will it deal with feedback effects?

It must be nice for you that you've never felt persecuted or treated unjustly by human systems and therefore can't extrapolate to how that might play out when autonomous killer rob…

> Out of curiosity, has anyone made an MMO better than UO yet? Piggybacking on this, has anyone made an open world single player RPG better than Ultima 7 yet?

> Brazilians have done a terrible job of protecting their rainforest While the Amazon is in Brazilian territory, it is one of the largest carbon sinks in the world and therefore ha…

The team has published quite a few papers (albeit they are mostly behind paywalls). Here's a good overview: http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/23...

There's a rhythm to the original that's lost in translation. GGM's mastery of the language is impossible not to notice.

In chess there are hundreds of annotated databases out there where I can study how the masters play, read analyses of different playing styles, and try to follow along and improve …

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Meanwhile... Gmail etc are working quite fine. So the claim that if you build on GAE you "take advantage of the same infrastructure used for Google services!!" starts to ring a bit…

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Looking at the MSIL emitted by the compiler is not a reliable way to tell that a tail call will be used at runtime. It's ultimately at the discretion of the JIT whether to compile …